Bewick, Thomas, (1753-1828), engraver

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Surname:	Bewick
Forenames:	Thomas
Gender:	Male
Date:	1753-1828
History:	Thomas Bewick was born at Cherryburn, Ovingham, Northumberland in 1753. In 1767 he was apprenticed in Newcastle to Ralph Beilby, silver engraver. After completing his apprenticeship he worked in London for a few months then returned to Newcastle to form the firm of Beilby and Bewick with his former master. The partnership was dissolved in 1798 and Bewick continued to work on his own account until 1812 when he withdrew from the firm, which was continued by his son, Robert, and daughter, Jane. Thomas Bewick died in 1828. In 1790 Bewick and Beilby published the General History of Quadrupeds and in 1798 the first volume of The History of British Birds. Bewick produced the second volume of The History of British Birds in 1804, and another major work, The Fables of Aesop in 1818.
Biography:	ODNB link for Bewick, Thomas (1753-1828) Engraver
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/P132342 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/P2463 )
Online related resources	Artists' Paper Register link for Thomas Bewick	Bibliography of British and Irish History link for Thomas Bewick

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	corresp and papers	Victoria & Albert (V&A) Museum, National Art Library		NRA 13466 V & A Museum See Bridson, Natural history MS resources, 1980
2	corresp and papers	Tyne and Wear Archives	DT.BEW	NRA 24295
3	18th-19th cent: further corresp	Tyne and Wear Archives	DT.BEW	See Annual Return 1998
4	further corresp with his children	Tyne and Wear Archives	DT.BEW	See Annual Return 2004
5	work and papers, with printing blocks	Newcastle City Library		See NEMLAC Survey of Collections, 2003
6	notes and papers for history of British birds	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 50826
7	memoir	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 41481
8	literary MSS	Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne		See ASLIB Directory of Literary and Historical Collections 1993
9	1797-1822: misc corresp	Cambridge University Library: Department of Manuscripts and University Archives	MS Add.8520	NRA 44020
10	notes and cuttings	London Library		NRA 20043 London L coll
11	corresp with John Dovaston	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Eg MSS 3147-48
12	1802-06: corresp with Sara Hodgson	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 50241
13	1807-27: corresp with Sir John and WC Trevelyan	British Library, Manuscript Collections	Add MS 31207
14	1796-1836: letters (56)	Huntington Library		See Guide to literary MSS 1979; also British L microfilm M/278
15	proofs, scrapbooks, letter from Jane Bewick	Laing Art Gallery
16	letters from Thomas Bewick	Thomas Bewick Birthplace Museum